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slarm escaped her, and she let fall some
wild roses she had gathered.
"See," she eXClsimed.

| Wlld roses sle haQ gathered.
"See," she exclaimed
Crossing meadow, leisurel7, al soma
! distance from them were Sir Erisco
! Braybrooke and her Uncle Grimshsw,
who hsd been tremendously returning
the visit Of the former, by whom ne was
! being accompanied through the grounds
towards the private gate in the lane 81
reGG7 referred TO.
at would have been well for you,
Melsnie, if we had never, never met?'
said LoEsdsle, IN tone Of sorrow, love
and irritation curious!Y Mingled.
"Why 2"
"You7 beauty must have won you :
more wealthy, II not more worthy love,
than such an unlucky devil 2s l. You
might have become independent Of M-.
G1imshsw, sole % further the interests
Of your brOtleIS, and rey5r have k1OWG
"What !. was to have Jour love, Mout!
Oh, dearest, 90 not speak Il NE in thE'
nsTcecAry way" pleaded the &irI, WIZ
qljverjng lips e3d tears IL her eyes.
/ 81 have nsvsr yet thought a myself"
"DId he but krOW-G-d ne 5ut know
/ all" she thought, recalling me Offers C
Sir Brisco, ald the words ne had uttered
Ct C1Liingt0u P&:k. But th5l was Q Nor
/ tfyin secret, which She was resolved
Aer lover should never know.
"Tnev are coming this w2y-dea-
Monti, leave me-" said Me,a1ie, in
ploriu9ly and IA haste.
"Why So" he asked.
"Ol, car you ask me:'
"Bat ycur uncle SHOWS Of cur engage
ment."
"And the other tiresome Old man does
not.n
/ ''S-r Bri7co-7ha. does it matter:'
/ Gle will think 1t ocd, oar meeting thus
AID in his woCds-pGt Uncle Grim h. &
l know would be furious"
"PeThaps you are right, SO goodbye
/ til tomorrow, my darling" and great
~ TO the relief Of MelRnie, he rose, Iet,
. her, and Owed into the coppice, while
MelaLie fed Ike 8 startled f8Tn toward
8 path thSt led to the cottage, while from
3 vista between the trees, Montague
LorsdAle watched ner Iiglj d1Stirg dress
as long a5 lie could see it, ana lie SANG
softly to himself:
cot Al the h5wsrs Of fair England,
The fairGst lower is she
Then he leisurely s5Taped match on tnC
stem Of 8 bush, Ii. . cigar, and SLOWLY
j0ined the two lOiterers.
Had they seen the speedy parting.
Surely no; yet to LOnsdale il seemed
, thGt Mr.. G1imshaw, as least, was curious
ly p.qued and reserved i'll lis manner TO-
wards him.
CHAPTER X.
Ia: what 10 ne my love-bus what to ms
80 Love LapCur Lost.
Reginald Talbot fell lust now that
kind Of Charge had come over the tea0l
Of his lie, sid that he was now more 1T
20 himself than was wont to be TIC case
Melsnje Yves often with LCusd&le, or &C.
cupied IN writing TO him, and Amy Dgen
dJa's visits ID REESE Cottage were nov
pAid at longer intervals, aud We're more
brief in their duration, and MS sad near
f0rebCded the resscn why.
IL mis- solitude, his thoughts ever T2I
on sunny days long gOne-of MS boyisl
Csrcer-Of his ship and his mes5-mates
CT hopes that were brilliant, Of passionstt
and heartfelt l0agingg, Of memories tha
we're + eretiul and sweet, Of aII this. wa
now, and ali thGt might nave been but ~
the present death in life that had come
upon himI
In her he he'd always had & good anC
patient listener TO his yarns, ana NOR
especially in MS young brother Dick, WINK
listened open-mouthed, ard was nevc.
weary Of hearing how, when beCalmed il
the tropics for days, the sea and sky wer
like motion brass, with cIoudless burn
ing sun blazing overhead in the light o.
which every rope and spar seemed Il
twist like serpents, and if deck sean
were touched, the pitch sbluDbled out 0
it; the crew naked to the waists, worl
with the hauling aound OF yards, and sicl
of x-haulirg to catch breatI
of air, while with moistened finger, tn
lieutenant Of the watch tried to detect
there was current abroad; or what wa
better suited to Dicks taste, Reginald
fight with q brown bear on the coast Q
Japan, when he choked him by thrustins
a brandy bottle down his throat; or bet
ter still, how the Ibis, With the Condo
snd other gunbosts, lay Of Fort Mara
bout at the bombardment CT Alexandria
and then, es a. that other c2nnonade 0
which Campbell sang